Settings

The Settings menu allows for the configuring of user-specific options. Settings must be configured before you create SA metadata.

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General Settings

The Auto-Save option will automatically write all changes to local storage when you exit a data entry field when turned on. If the Auto-Save feature is turned off, changes must be manually saved. Auto-Save allows you to save less frequently, but it makes it harder to undo changes that you make to your records. If you stay on the same record, you can cancel changes. But once you leave the record, the record is saved and you can’t cancel the change except by manually re-editing the record.

The Copy in Edit Mode option allow users to copy a record while in edit mode.

The Delete in Edit Mode option allows users to delete a record while in edit mode.

The Clear All Records option will delete all records (Projects, Products, and Contacts) by clicking the “Clear Storage Cache” button.

Warning

Clearing all records will delete all of the records currently loaded in mdEditor. Before doing so, use the Export function to make a backup of your records. Otherwise, the records will be permanently lost (unless you previously made a backup copy).

General Settings

Defaults

These must be implemented before you begin creating metadata records. These defaults will allow metadata to be imported from ScienceBase, connect to the proper version of mdTranslator, and select the proper metadata repositories.

Keep the Language defaults that are pre-loaded. Language: English, Character Set: UTF-8, Location: USA.

Set the Import URL to: https://api.sciencebase.gov/sbmd-service/mdjson/

Set the mdTranslator API URL to: https://api.sciencebase.gov/mdTranslator/api/v3/translator

For the Metadata Repositories (online databases for storing metadata) settings, add two repositories:

1. Select ScienceCatalog from the Repository drop-down menu. Enter “SA Science Catalog” as the collection title. It is important that the text is entered exactly as written to be included in the Science Catalog.
2. Select data.gov from the Repository drop-down menu. For the collection title, enter “Data.gov USFWS Science Applications”.

Once entered in the Settings, these repository options can then be selected for projects and products records to ensure they are properly tag for inclusion in the repositories.

The metadata repository information must be exactly the same for each record with no variations in spelling, spaces, capitalization, etc. Specifying this information in Settings is the best way to ensure the repository information will be consistent across records. It is strongly recommended that you do not type these in by hand on individual metadata records.

Default settings for Science Applications metadata

Date Settings

Set the Start Month of Fiscal Year to October.

Publishing Settings

Under Publishing Settings, in the Default Parent Identifier field, enter the ScienceBase identifier (SBID) for your SA Region.

Publishing Settings (use the Parent Identifier for your Region).

The following table shows each Region’s Default Parent Identifier. This is the ScienceBase identifier for each Region’s ‘Project’ folder.

USFWS Region	Parent Identifier
Headquarters	645bfe94d34ec179a83822dc
Region 1	664f786bd34e702fe8747f80
Region 2	645bfe4bd34ec179a83822ce
Region 3	645bfe56d34ec179a83822d0
Region 4	645bfe5fd34ec179a83822d2
Region 5	645bfe6ad34ec179a83822d4
Region 6	645bfe76d34ec179a83822d6
Region 7	645bfe80d34ec179a83822d8
Region 8	645bfe8ad34ec179a83822da

Export Settings

See the Export section for information about the options available for Exporting.

Profile and Validation Settings

Allows a user to import a custom metadata profile and/or a custom validation schema.